Wines to pair with your Thanksgiving Day feast!!

Thanksgiving is coming up! What wine should you drink with dinner?

If the thought of selecting a wine for your Thanksgiving dinner causes a panic attack, here’s some simple advice. For every five people at your table, select two different wines. Now if you have ten people coming for dinner, you will need to choose four wines. With that in mind, you’ll have something for everyone. The big question - which wine or wines to go with the variety of tastes, textures and aromas that uniquely present themselves on Thanksgiving Day? Should you choose one wine to carry you through appetizers to desserts - a tough request, but certainly doable. Or should you choose several wines to accent different components of the meal
and cater to a variety of guests' palates? The choice is entirely up to you, but here are some options to get you started.


Here are some suggestions to pair with...

Turkey

30 Degrees Chardonnay 

Lion’s Ridge Sauvignon Blanc 

JR Joachim Ress Riesling

Brutocao Pinot Noir 

Rockslide Road Zinfandel

 Orbit Pinot Noir

Ham

Jung Spatlesse Riesling 

Rockslide Road Sauvignon Blanc 

Volpi Il Dolce Moscato

Beef

Orbit Alexander Valley Cabernet 

Brutocao Merlot 

Finca Los Lorios Malbec 

Lion’s Ridge Meritage

Have a great holiday!!

Synergy Cabernet

There is a turning point in every life.

The day Picasso mastered a squiggle. The day the Ramones got in the elevator. The day Madonna bought her first bra. And that lunch back in 1999, when Vic Bourassa met Robert Mondavi and brought out a bottle of his own homemade wine.

Of course, Mondavi has been considered by many as the godfather of California wine, so his encouragement was worth more than the cost of the entree and two desserts. Maybe that’s one of the reasons why Vic Bourassa continued his hobby, and turned those few homemade bottles into the Bourassa Vineyards in Napa Valley, which is where Synergy Cabernet Sauvignon was born.

Remember that story when you begin to enjoy the aromatics of sweet cherry and flowery herbs, the palate full of rosemary, black currant and cinnamon, the firm oak flavors and the long, lovely, enjoyable finish. The Synergy Cab is surely a well-made wine, but without that first encouragement, would Vic Bourassa have continued in the same direction? Maybe instead he’d have given up in frustration, turning to root beer or perhaps even salt water taffy. What a loss that could have been!

Thankfully, Bourassa and Mondavi were in the right place at the right time, and their moment together led to this delicious wine.